[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)

[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)

You project a confident image through good body posture.

The only place we can find a clear, i unmistakable message is in the Word of God [the Bible].

Life is so beautiful, it dazzles my eyes.

You find out more of the type of person someone is when they are around someone in need

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.